Indispensable Tools

(In my view)

Total Commander

My main tool on Windows
Opens all files (F3), copies (F5), zips / unzips
Changes names of files ( shiftF6) or starts in DOS mode ( shift enter)
Opens (with F4) notepad ( or for me: my html editor for changing files and therefore I do part of the HTML editing from here.) Even ftp-functions! (very easy comparing sites with the ones on the server)

Those who deplore disappearance with Windows 95 of the old Norton Commander, here it is back, a 64bit Windows version for Windows 10 done by:
Christian Ghisler

http://www.ghisler.com

Skype

Skype Internet telephony (and see who is online):
www.skype.com for internet telephony
(with Spontania-plugin)

For a relative small fee: Phone with Skype-out to every telephone in the world

ICQ

See whom of your friends is online and communicate directly.
Not in use anymore, since there is Skype, a pity, it was a nice programm.
(New is ICQ 5 lite)

http://www.mirabilis.com

Trilian

Or what do you think of Trillian?
It can connect you at the same time to:
ICO, MSN, AIM, Yahoo and IRC (the sounds are better too) http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

The actual overall internet traffic on this moment:

(Click to see graphs for each continent)

The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world.
It then displays a value between zero and 100.
Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.

Naviscope , webbrowsing utility
Useful? You can see what is loading, that is the point, (by interposing a proxy: HTTP manual proxy set to 127.0.0.1, port 81). stop loading individual images, blocking advertisements, blocking cookies, etc is possible.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Other-Internet-Related/Naviscope.shtml
~~http://www.naviscope.com~~

Shoutcast Find (or configure your own!) radio station (with the shoutcast server) http://www.shoutcast.com/

World Time Zones. CLOX
Nice set of world clocks,